A Chinese warship came close to colliding, just over 100 meters from the American destroyer Us Chung-Hoon, engaged in a joint Canada-US activity on freedom of navigation through the Taiwan Strait. This was reported by Global News, based on the testimony of one of its reporters traveling on another ship participating in the exercise, the HMCS Montreal, the Canadian frigate that participated in the mission since May 25 in the South China Sea. According to the reconstruction, the Chinese unit set course to cut the bow of the US destroyer.
Montreal commander Captain Paul Mountford called the move unprofessional and the incident "instigated by the Chinese. The fact that this had been announced on the radio before doing so clearly indicated that it was intentional." The Chinese People's Liberation Army ship, according to the reconstruction, ordered the American one to change course and move away to avoid the collision.
Mountford said he had urged the US destroyer to act in a timely manner to avoid the incident. The Americans, on the other hand, responded by asking the Chinese side to stay away, but in the end the Chung-Hoon had to change course and slow down to avoid a crash considered inevitable without the appropriate corrections.